Happy new year! For me, 2011 was awesome! I got to travel and be introduced to so many amazing new people and new adventures and new music!
Some highlights (and photos I took) in 2011 included:
- Walking around Chicago in the rain
- Trying migas for the first time in Austin, TX
- Jumping on tons of other peoples beds
- Surviving the Rapture
- Surviving Los Angeles
- Having something I started in New York, get displayed all the way in Norway
- Screaming until my throat burnt when Halloween came around
- Having two of my photos put into a gallery show
- Having my photo published in AP magazine
- Teaching myself Illustrator enough to start playing with my food
- Breaking my addiction to Puzzle Quest
- Finally getting a big kid WordPress blog up
- Creating the perfect cookie recipe
- Learning the easiest and most efficient way to clean out a blender without a sponge
- Finding fun things to make out of hand turkeys
- Going to Disneyland twice!
- Learning how to break open a sea urchin and eat its fresh delicious insides
- Being introduced to Death
- Learning how to curl my hair with a flat iron
- Creating a fake religion
- Learning how to let go of jerks
- Finally going to the caves in Malibu
- Showed myself how to make a podcast
- Holding a handstand for more than 5 seconds
- Hiking around the Manson family compound
- Shooting fashion week
- The TV series Episodes
- Learning to draw with light
- Learning how to make .gif files
- Embracing the humor from being sporadic and random
- Being in New York for a hurricane scare, after having lived in Florida
- Singing silly songs
- Dancing silly dances
- Videoing silly videos
- Getting through hard times with the help of packs of cigarettes, whiskey, and Matt
- Getting through my enjoyment for whiskey and chain smoking immediately after that
- Renewing my passport
I’m SO excited about 2012. I’ve been compiling a list of goals for the year. Some are serious but most are silly. I did it last year and didn’t even realize that I not only accomplished almost everything I had written down, but I’ve become in love with the things I challenged myself to do.
One of my goals for 2011 was to order something off of a menu that I couldn’t pronounce. Because of this, I now LOVE guanciale! Now I always find myself ordering unknown things off menus.
Some silly ones for 2012 include:
- Take at 10 photos with my 35mm camera that I’m really happy with
- Try new teas
- Make a new hoodie that fits me perfectly
- Walk around barefoot in a place where I probably shouldn’t
- Do a cartwheel in a different country
- Make something fun with stop animation
- Take pictures of intimidating strangers
- Learn to use a pogo stick
- Play hide and seek with a ton of people
- Take part in an activity thats fun and will make it sweat profusely
- Host an event that involves making invites and party favors
In 2011, I made a mix for myself every month. It consisted of new music that was shared with me, songs that I forgot how much I loved, songs that I could never get enough of, ect. The other day, I made 2 compilations of the music I pulled from those 12 individual mixes as an ultimate mix of songs that will remind me of 2011, to share with you!
Download: volume 1 side A first disc 
Download: volume 2 side B second disc
I think you’ll rock all of those goals this year. Gonna try for Thailand again you think? Or maybe somewhere else?
This all made me smile & resolve to take more photos with cameras other than my phone in 2012.
You are an amazing photographer, you will go far with your talent- I am sure of it!
Hooray it’s 2012 & we’re starting it with not 1 but 2 mixes! Sweet!
It’s nice to see you had an amazing 2011, mine was shit… But I’m sure 2012 will be nice. I hope everything will be great with you. Thank you for the mixes. Have a nice day!
On my occasional glum day it is a real joy to read an unabashed testament to the joys of simply being alive. Thanks for the uplifting post.
Great to see you had a delicious 2011! Here is to 2012! Also with one of your goals of taking part in an activity and sweating a little, have you thought about doing the MP3 Experiment? It is sponsored by Improv Everywhere…yes those same people that do the annoying No Pants Subway ride. The event I mentioned is better!
love the pics of you. more for my collection.